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Re: GCC, the GNU linker and the -z extract option
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: eoin <eoin dot mcquillan at btinternet dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:21:31 -0700
- Subject: Re: GCC, the GNU linker and the -z extract option
- References: <18647984.post@talk.nabble.com>
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 2:06 AM, eoin <eoin.mcquillan@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm a new poster here. I am porting some Solaris code over to Linux and
> using the GNU compiler and linker. Now I have a "meta library"(creating a
> "master" shared object from mayny shared objects) which creates fine in
> Solaris but in Linux it doesn't create as a meta library - ldd suggests that
> it depends on the libraries which were previously used to produce the meta
> library on solaris.
> Looking into this I can see that with every .so we effectively lose the
> identity and so with a metalibrary what we need to do is to "unravel" the
> .sos to produce the meta library.
> I do this in Solaris using the -z extract option. I can't see how to do
> this in Linux using the GNU linker. Anyone any ideas?
>
This has nothing to do with gcc. Please ask it on binutils mailing list with
an example.
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H.J.